Human Competence: Imperatives is the sequel to Human Competence. A stand alone read, Imperatives is a deep dive into key components necessary to prepare students for their future. Using the students' research and conversations, Human Competence: Imperatives explores the types of deep structural changes that must occur within our public education system to keep it relevant. Today's educators, and students, are locked into education systems, public and private, designed for a past that no longer exists and does not prepare them for their future. Imperatives focuses on the increasing presence of technology and artificial intelligence (AI). As artificial intelligence outpaces the computational skills of the human brain (biological intelligence) these students search out ways to prepare themselves for a partnership with AI that will enhance our humanity and not destroy our species.

To adapt and survive, we must identify the IMPERATIVES--the essential skills humans need to guarantee the structures necessary for our individual survival and the survival of our species. As the students discover, to be empowered they must become self-directed learners. They need a reliable skill set that allows them to access information, think and evaluate critically, learn at an accelerated pace, adapt to changing situations, work collaboratively with others to solve real problems, function in a machine intelligence dominated reality, and hold to the highest standards attainable as ethical human beings.

Our education systems must prepare students to make contributions using technology to access data and information. They must learn how to apply their insights to design a society that is still to be created, and to the evolution of the education systems for the future. Humans must deal with machine intelligence that can do almost anything humans can do ... except be human.

This search for answers takes place through a medley of student dialogues.